British American Tobacco p.l.c. share price today

British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s share price was $62.95 at the close on 4 November 2026. It has been rising for 4 weeks. That is 6.3% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $53 and $65, and at that close it sat 81% of the way up from that low.

A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). Today British American Tobacco p.l.c. is in stage 2. The phase helps read everything below.

Over the past 13 weeks it has done better than the S&P 500, and it has stayed ahead for 2 weeks in a row.

Over the last 10 years the share price moved −1% while the S&P 500 moved +261%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. declared GBP 1.20 per local share for Dec 2023, and GBP 4.66 over the last four reported quarters. It reports in British pounds, and one US-listed share can stand for several local shares, so we do not set this against the dollar price or show a yield.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. earned GBP 3.2 B of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter, −29.6% on the same quarter a year earlier. Full-year FY25 profit was GBP 7.7 B. Over 4 years profit has grown 3.1% a year on average. That is 25.8% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned GBP 4.5 B.

Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

2 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

For the full year, FY25 profit was GBP 7.7 B (+153.7% on the year before).

This company reports in British pounds, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (GBP); nothing is converted.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. reported GBP 12.2 B of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +1.4% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 2nd quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown −0.1% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at GBP 25.6 B.

Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

FY25 revenue was GBP 25.6 B, −1.0% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew −0.8% on average, against −0.1% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing at about the same pace as its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew −5.6%, against −0.7% a year over the last 8 quarters (rolling over).

This company reports in British pounds, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (GBP); nothing is converted.

British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s operating margin was 34.9% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 7.1 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Over the last four quarters it has moved −2.4 percentage points. Across 5 years it has been between −38.7% and 42.5%. The latest quarter is within that range.

Operating margin is what is left from every GBP 100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −2.4 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed +1.2 points. So the drop came mostly from costs below the gross margin, such as staff and overheads, measured against sales.

Over the last 3 years, 155% of British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in GBP 6.3 B of operating cash against GBP 7.7 B of profit.

The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

After GBP 551 M of spending on assets, GBP 5.8 B was left over as free cash.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason.

What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building.

This company reports in British pounds, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (GBP); nothing is converted.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent GBP 1.5 B on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 1.9% of FY25 revenue a year.

Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn.

Spending on assets: GBP 1.5 B over the last 3 years.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns.

This company reports in British pounds, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (GBP); nothing is converted.

British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s P/E is 16.0×, with too little history to compare. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar of yearly profit.

In short: there is too little history to say whether the multiple is high or low for this company, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple.

British American Tobacco p.l.c.'s business is giving mixed signals. Revenue and profit growth are shrinking while ROCE is steady at 19.7%, so growth and returns point different ways. This is based on 12 quarters of 3 measures, with some gaps.

Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

Why it matters: when the lines disagree, each line above matters more than any single label.

This reading has some gaps: at least one line is short, or the return line is not the quarterly series, so treat it with a little more caution.

Compound annual growth rate (%)

Compound annual growth rate over each period, %. Revenue, profit and EPS come from yearly figures; the stock price row is price growth over the same periods. A dash means no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. earned a ROE of 16% in FY25. That is up from a low of −27% in FY23. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 4.0 percentage points above its cost of capital, so growth here adds value, not just size. It comes from a 30.0% net margin and 0.23× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. We do not have the full capital split, so ROE is the longest history we can draw here.

Why the return is what it is (FY25): a 30.0% net margin × 0.23× asset turnover × 2.27× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 15.7% on equity. The margin does most of the work; borrowing is a big part of it.

The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 8.5% − 4.5% = +4.0 percentage points. The 4.5% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Positive but thin: it creates value with little room for error.

The 8.5% ROIC above is the latest reading, as reported. The yearly chart below shows FY25 at 9.6%, and the quarterly chart works out each 12-month window from the quarterly figures, so the readings differ by date, not by method.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. has total debt of GBP 35.1 B against shareholder equity of GBP 48.6 B as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 0.72× its equity. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.59 in FY21 to 0.73 in FY25. Keep that borrowing in mind when reading the returns on this page.

Debt-to-equity shows how much of the business is paid for with borrowed money. Lower is safer, and the direction matters as much as the level.

This company reports in British pounds, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (GBP); nothing is converted.

We have no ownership or short-position figures for British American Tobacco p.l.c., so this section says so rather than fill the gap. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 0.8 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead.

There is no quarter-by-quarter list of owners here, so we look at short interest: the share of tradable shares held in short positions, which gain if the price falls.

For British American Tobacco p.l.c., the Z-score is 1.70. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the danger zone. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure.

The Z-score estimates how far a company is from balance-sheet trouble. Above about 3 is safe; below about 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not used for banks and lenders.

Why it matters: a Z-score of 1.70 is inside the danger zone, so the balance sheet is a real risk.

50.1 out of 100, rank 3 of 6 in Tobacco, with 51% of the evidence available.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. scores 50.1 out of 100 against the 6 companies it is compared with in Tobacco, ranking 3. Some evidence is missing, so the score is pulled toward the middle on purpose.

The four parts add up to the total exactly: 15.8 + 11.1 + 10 + 13.2 = 50.1. This is the same number shown on the industry page; it is worked out once for the whole group and read here.

What would change it: The score would fall if profit growth turns negative or margins stop improving while the share price lags its sector.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. ranks 3 of 6 Tobacco companies on the 4-Factor Sector Score, with 50.1 out of 100.

Missing figures are not scored as bad. They lower the confidence and pull the final score toward the middle. Relative strength counts only when the company has a reading for this week; with no reading, that factor is left out and its 20 points are shared across the other three in proportion. PEG is not shown when the ratio cannot mean anything: the company must be making a profit, its price-to-earnings must be positive, and its three-year earnings growth must fall between 5% and 60%. Dividing a price multiple by a loss, or by growth measured off a tiny base, produces a number that looks precise and tells you nothing. Under relative strength, one mark per week shows the last 12 weeks: a mark is filled where the company led S&P 500 by 5% or more over the 13 weeks ending that week, which is the same test used everywhere on this site. Price stage places the company on the same six-step path the industry is placed on (basing, turning, breaking out, leader, fading, asleep), read from how many weeks running it has led S&P 500 and whether that lead is growing or shrinking. It describes where the share price stands, not the direction of earnings, and it is not a recommendation; it is left blank for a company whose weekly history is too short or too stale to read.

The figures in this ranking come from the industry comparison: results through the Sep 2026 quarter, and the P/E at that quarter's end. The sections above use the latest weekly price, so a P/E or return there can differ a little from the one here. The stage words in this ranking (such as losing its lead or breaking out) describe the lead over the index, not the price phase in the price section.

Related companies: Tobacco, all 6 compared on one page.

British American Tobacco p.l.c. is the 2nd largest of 6 Tobacco companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 4 November 2026). Just above it: Philip Morris International Inc. Just below it: Altria Group, Inc., RLX Technology Inc., Turning Point Brands, Inc. and Universal Corporation.

Tobacco companies close in size

1. Philip Morris International Inc. $329.1 billion
2. British American Tobacco p.l.c. $138.9 billion
3. Altria Group, Inc. $129.8 billion
4. RLX Technology Inc. $2 billion
5. Turning Point Brands, Inc. $1.4 billion
6. Universal Corporation $990 million

All 6 Tobacco companies, largest first

Companies close in size in other industries

111. S&P Global Inc. $139.6 billion · Financial Data & Stock Exchanges
112. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $139.3 billion · Biotechnology
113. British American Tobacco p.l.c. $138.9 billion
114. Lockheed Martin Corporation $137.4 billion · Aerospace & Defense
115. Eaton Corporation plc $137 billion · Specialty Industrial Machinery

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